How cold does it get?? I wasn't aware it gets cold cold in WA state. Do the roads get treacherous?

It's gonna be -2 degrees tonight. It's abnormal, just like the huge amount of snow.

Two brand new Trane gas furnaces to the rescue, lol.

Half the city with heat pumps are gonna just freeze.

 

We got down to 13 this week. Much colder than our norms.

 

17 degrees outside my house right now…

 

4 degrees here currently.

 

6 here, I'm in the garage so I ran the heater for 20 min and it's 75 for me lol

 

Lol of course you are. Nothing could ever stop you. I usually go out every day etc etc have a routine but I'm not stepping foot outside until it warms back up lol.

 

Not about the capability, they just assume(correctly) that the majority of people who buy an SUV as expensive as an LX aren't going to take it off-pavement.

 

Valid, but I'm talking about this snow.

What I'm saying is people have looked at me like I'm insane, all the people I have crawled by that were stuck. I have crawled by stuck vehicles that have 4WD, lol. I haven't even had to touch one thing off road wise, get into the crawl control, diff lock, etc. I got the brand new Yukon out today, and it's got good traction... but definitely not as good in the snow. Part of it are tires which aren't as good as mine on the LX, but the Yukon does not have this crazy advanced traction control that seems to defy physics like the LX570 does.

The roads that were never plowed are now are several inches solid ice and even still the thing is just unstoppable.

Nothing that non-car people would see on a big Lexus SUV that would hint that it could even go over a curb, let alone that it's a Land Cruiser designed for Antartica for 30 years haha.

It looks like a classy, expensive grocery getter. And the looks I get from people have been hilarious. People have gotten stuck, and I safely maneuver away from them and just drive on by.

I've also gotten nods from proper truck owners who probably do know the beast it is. Tons of Land Cruisers out in this but zero LXs other than me. There are also about 40 million GXs in West Knoxville and nobody is driving those either, what a waste.

 

Man I have a 2022 GX and I really want one of these. Loving the GX to death but the LX is just such a boss car. How do you get around the no Android Auto or Carplay issue?

 

I just say “Hey Siri” and it does things verbally CarPlay can do over the speakers.

Carplay is neat but I don’t think it’s a must have but that’s me.

My display is dated AF, but those things don’t bother me. It’ll last forever.

But I do utilize “Hey Siri” almost every drive for songs, etc. It’s always at the ready.

 

 

Re Tennessee snow......Around Nashville ours is still here. In the area we received 7-10 inches (which is more than our annual average) starting Sunday night, and most is still here. With low temps, it will probably be here until late Monday or Tuesday.
Primary roads have been cleared, but most of the neighborhoods are still covered, now with a top layer of ice. I have had no issues getting around in the GLS 450.

 

Good, you're probably having some fun in it because Lord knows I am in the LX. If you're from Nashville you get it, Tennessee snow. So much fun and it's usually (99/100 times) gone by the time it starts to get old and annoying.

And yep, same here re: frigid tems and lingering snow. It's snowing now that wasn't predicted, who knows-- we may pick up more accumulation. There's a solid 8-9 inches in our yard that nobody has walked over etc.